White Castle USA Luge Slider Search returns to Essex Junction, VT June 17-18
Team USA is looking for future National and Olympic team athletes
The White Castle USA Luge Slider Search is the official nationwide athlete recruitment tour of USA Luge, targeting young athletes ages 9-13.

The tour will make a stop in Vermont June 17-18 at the Champlain Valley Expo on Route 15 in Essex Junction. Clinic times are 9 AM – 12 PM and 2 – 5 PM. Interested participants need only sign up for one session. The top young athletes from this group are selected for the next year’s development team.
The clinics are free. A cool White Castle USA Luge Slider Search T-Shirt is your gift for attending. Register by phone at 1-800-USA-LUGE, or online through our secure store site at http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Luge/SS-Registration-Form

At each series stop, guided by U.S. Olympic and National Team coaches and athletes, participants are taught the basics of riding a luge sled, including positioning, steering and stopping. Once these skills are developed, athletes take several runs down a paved luge course on wheel-equipped luge sleds.
Finally, athletes test their physical skills through a battery of fitness tests. Those who show promise in the summer program are invited to Lake Placid, N.Y., Park City, Utah, or Muskegon, Mich. to try luge on ice at a USA Luge sanctioned training site. The top young athletes from this group are selected for the next year’s development team.

The mission of this grass-roots program, established in 1985, is to identify, train and qualify young athletes for the USA Luge Junior Development Team. Athletes who may progress through the six-rung development ladder (Junior Development Team, Junior Team Candidate Select, Junior Team Candidate, Junior National Team Select, Junior National Team, National Team Select) have hopes of one-day becoming members of the National and Olympic Luge Teams.

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